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A pragmatic realist born in 1986 (this makes me a Chernobyl baby) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Got fascinated with computers at the early age of 6 at which I've changed my Super Nintento for a Commodore 64. After breaking my grandpa's digital calculator for years before that.
Here I've started basic programming and it wasn't long after this that i got my first "real computer" a IBM with a Intel 80386DX. From here we super-warped into Intel 166MHz, AMD 800MHz and after this I've lost track what my next step was since i then got laptops/notebooks instead believe a whopping 1.8GHz or 2GHz - can't recall it exactly anymore hence who cares. It's not about CPU power anymore for most of our chores.
I've saw pretty much every operating system from:
- BSD (Dragonfly,Free,Net,Open)
- Commodore KERNAL/Commodore BASIC 2.0 GEOS
- Linux (various distro types)
- MS-DOS 6.22
- OSX (forgot where I've started wasn't early with Macs)
- Solaris
- Windows 3.1(1),95,NT4,98,Millennium Edition,2000,2003,2008,2016 (2012 I've skipped for some reason - I'm not the biggest Windows fan)
Worked as a system engineer was more fascinated by the networking side of life. So became a networking specialist.
Cisco, Cumulus, Extreme, Huawei, Juniper, Nokia they all have no secrets for me and they all have bugs. I've been operating at Expert level within (Large) Enterprise & Service Provider networks for 15+ years (protocols like BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS (incl Segment-Routing), VPLS).